Global Inclusion Initiatives

year	Nontechnical events	technical events	consequential meetings	key figures	CEO & Chair of the Board	Key Moments	sources
2015	ICANN establishes Global Support Centers; expansion of ICANN Language Services scope		-	Seda Akbulut, Tammy Yeow	Fadi Chehadé & Steve Crocker	Beginning of Digital Inclusion Era	-
		The Universal Acceptance SG is founded		Ajay Data, Abdalmonem Tharwat Galila, Maria Kolesnikova, Lilian Ivette De Luque Bruges, Dessalegn Mequanint Yehuala, U.B. Pavanaja, Mark Svancarek, Nitin Walia, Sarika Gulyani, Wei Pei, Photchanan Ratanajaipan, Nabil Benamar, Satish Babu, Rajiv Kumar, Abhishek Mishra			UASG
2016	First mention of "multistakeholder process" makes it into ICANN Bylaws due to the work of ICG and the CCWG-IG;			Bertrand de la Chapelle	Fadi Chehadé /Akram Atallah/Göran Marby & Steve Crocker		2016 ICANN Bylaws, Public Comment, April 21, 2016
	the Internet & Jurisdiction Policy Network holds first global conference on "Legal Interoperability"
	Geographic Regions Review Working Group Recommendations Mapping Document is accepted by board, emphasizing the general principle of geographic diversity is valuable and should be preserved		ICANN 63	Adiel Akplogan, David Archbold, Fahd Batayneh, Ching Chiao, Olga Cavalli, Zahid Jamil, Cheryl Langdon-Orr, Carlton Samuels, Paul Wilson, Bart Boswinkel, Mandy Carver, Gisella Gruber, Robert Hoggarth
2019	Enhancing the evolution of ICANN's Multistakeholder Model (MSM) begins	-	ICANN 64, ICANN 65, ICANN 66	Brian Cute	Göran Marby & Cherine Chalaby/Maarten Botterman	Beginning of Evolution of ICANN's MSM	Enhancing Effectiveness of MSM
	GAC forms Universal Acceptance and IDN Working Group		ICANN 66				UA IDN WG, GAC